disk in drive is not formatted, do you want to format it? (CDROM)

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steve

I've seen this post many times and have not seen a single answer to it. Does
ANYONE know why win2k just randomly decides it's not going to read my cdrom
anymore, even though I can boot from it, it shows up in the device manager
etc? There's nothing wrong with it (I've tried 2 different ones). I know
this has happened to a lot of people, I just can't believe nobody has an
answer. I've looked on Google, microsoft, annoyances.org you name it. If
anyone has a clue, I'd be greatly appreciative.

Steve

ps, I've unplugged and replugged, removed devices, IDE ports you name it. Is
a windows reinstall the only answer? If Microsoft expects me to buy WinXP to
solve this (vs them solving it) they can forget it. I say that becuase this
happened to a buddy of mine the other day also and that's what he ended up
doing.
 
As with many other problems, this one was solved with one easy step.
Step 1. Remove Norton Anti-virus
Step 2. Curse Norton Anti-Virus

One of the things that got me off track was I think I had a cmos battery go
bad at the same time and I was unable to boot up etc. Funny how things
always seem to pile up like that. Thanks anyway.

By the way, I finally got this figured out by getting into safe mode (I
previously had been unable to due to the cmos issue) and it worked, so I
figured there was a conflict. Anyway, Norton sucks, I want my $ back...

Hopefully people searching for an answer to this issue may get something out
of this experience.
I also noted that when running Nero disk check, it said the driver was
atapi.sys and I think it's supposed to be cdrom.sys. At least for the basic
cdrom I have installed now. I was formerly using a cd-rw so maybe that's the
correct driver for that, I don't know.
Norton sucks.
If anyone knows how to run Norton (which I unfortunately paid for) AND
resolve the conflict,.I'd be pleased to hear it.

Steve
 
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